Videos not playing + browser needs manual restart a lot
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Oddly enough, I can play some mp4 videos, but it's rare, and the instant anyone tries anything other than a straight embed (some sort of streaming, or any sort of changes to the playback mechanism) it fails.
I can also get Twitter GIFs, but not other videos.
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Thanks for the tip about the codec, i have the same issues on Youtube and i confirm that webM videos are allright but not mp4.
What I do when I encounter this problem is :
Change the resolution of the video to 144p (sometimes it works only with 240, 360...) then refresh the page.
The mp4 video starts in flash. Then, you just have to change back the resolution to 720/1080p in the flash player.
This trick works on 100% of the videos.
But again as said, can't do anything for twitter, steam...can a Vivaldi dev confirm all theses issues please ?
In the previous page they said that they were aware of the problem, trying to fix it, so just wait...
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I am also experiencing problems with videos playback and my macbook is not that old (MacBook Pro Retina, 13-inch, Early 2015). Running on Mac OS Sierra 10.12.3, latest version of Vivaldi, which I also tried to reinstall.
I have blocked third party cookies and using several extensions including:
- One Tab
- Frame by Frame for YouTube
- Magic Actions for YouTube
- LastPass
- Reopen closed tab Button
- uBlock Origin
- Youtube Playback Speed Control
On top of this, I am losing all open tabs (incl. pinned tabs) when the computer restarts. I've highlighted the issue here: https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/12568/all-tabs-lost-after-computer-restart
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@chainlightning Hey, yeah I can give a quick update, no fix in the pipeline yet, as we are currently working on other, bigger media issues, and because of that I can't really provide any sort of time estimate either.
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Hi,
Thanks for the quick update @Aronand.I managed to fix the youtube issue doing this :
I've found this chrome extension HERE. It disables the webm, vp8 and vp9 mime types. So I installed it, and as expected no youtube videos were working anymore.
So I changed the extension code you can find the repo here.
I simply changed the variable (in the inject.js)
var disallowed_types = ['webm', 'vp8', 'vp9'];
into
var disallowed_types = ['mp4'];Then installed the modified version.
And now all youtube videos are working !!
Before, the mime type of none working videos were 'mp4', now I get 'vp8', which is working.
As I don't know if I can put my modified extension in the chrome store (legally), I can make a tutorial...
edit : spell check (not my main language )
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@RiotNrrrd said in Videos not playing + browser needs manual restart a lot:
I'm not sure where Github comes into the picture here. Once you install the Extension can't you just navigate to
/Users/<yourname>/Library/Application Support/Vivaldi/Default/Extensions/<Extension name>/1.0.4_0/src/inject
and modify inject.js in there? No need to reference Github ...
I will have to test... But it might worok and it's even simpler this way
The reason I talked about the Github is that I wanted to fork the extension (clone it and distribute it with the modification). I will probably do it this week end (if I don't have too much work ^^).
I am really curious to know how you discovered this Extension and knew to modify this inject.js file! Great work
I tried a lot of thing regarding the mime type of the videos, so I ended up to this extension.
As it was programmed to block the vp9 mime type, I searched in the code where the variable vp9 was and changed it.I'm currently searching a workaround for the twitter videos too (but I have so much work right now...)
And thanks for the inspect
Edit :
The bad news is, Twitter videos are still giving me "The media could not be played" errors. Here's an example
The extension only apply to the youtube website. I will try to apply it for twitter too and test...
In the manifest.json :
"matches": [ "*://*.youtube.com/*" ],
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@RiotNrrrd
The Twitter issue is a little bit more tricky ^^
I'm trying to fix it with more or less success...
Will post a workaround as soon as I got it (if I got it... )And thanks @chainlightning for the extension
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I have the same problems. Really, really annoying since I love Vivaldi and don't wanna go back to another browser.
Vimeo doesn't work either. Example link:
https://vimeo.com/192355597Mac OS Sierra 10.12.4
iMac (27-inch, Mid 2010)
ATI Radeon HD 5750 1024 MBVivaldi 1.8.770.56 (Stable channel) (64-bit)
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Ok i have the same problem and after 2 years its not fixed...?
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@Giuseppe , DITTO.
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Yeah, i reported the bug, the bug number should be "VB-46798". Tried to ignore blacklist but doenst work and i have this problem too in chromium (just tested) but not in safari/firefox/chrome. Should i try to report this bug in chromium too?
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